Gargoyle 11
cover etching by Scott McIntyre
publication date 5/25/1979

Bird Is Only Sleeping

George Cairncross

The Minarets Of Istanbul
swirl in E Flat Minor
night echoes of Yardbird
strike shadows down sidewalks
dripping clouds
of flashing neon
12 bar streetcar progressions
riffing along East 52nd Street to
Mintons &
Birdland